Did anyone else play on Neopets back in the day?
For those of you unaware, Neopets is a website where you can create/adopt your own virtual pet! You can play games to earn Neopoints, go on quests, fight your way through the battledome, visit shops to purchase items for your pets, and more!
I joined Neopets in the year 2000. My first Neopet was a blue Lupe.
Neopia is a vast world with many different zones you can visit, explore, and have fun in. Faerieland is a cloud city filled with faeries and expensive shops. Terror Mountain is an icy mountain filled with snow themed games. Haunted Woods holds multiple fetch quests and luck based carnival (cough cough RIP OFF!) games.
My personal favorite area was Tyrannia.
Even if you didn't like some areas, it was always worth it to check them out. Sometimes you could find Neopoints, Codestones, or even Faeries in a Bottle, just by zooming through pages!
Out of the dozens of available games, my favorite was Meerca Chase. You would zoom around collecting Neggs while avoiding the red ones. It was real exciting to collect a Fish Negg since they were so rare and gave tons of points! I remember for a short period of time if you got a high enough score, you would be rewarded with a Meerca Transmogrification Potion which would turn your pet into a Meerca!
Another thing I loved about Neopets was all the dailies. Tombola on Mystery Island would give you a free raffle ticket. You usually won nothing, or junk like Sand in a Bottle, but every now and then you'd win a great prize! Visiting Coltzan's Shrine in the Lost Desert would power up your Neopet every now and then. If you were lucky enough to come across the Snowager taking a nap inside Terror Mountain, you'd have a chance to steal one of his many toy treasures. And who could forget the Giant Omelette in Tyrannia?
Neopets was honestly a great website because you had so much to do. You could be an avatar or trophy hunter to pimp out your profile. You could become a battledome expert by buying powerful weapons and leveling up your pets stats. You could scour the Shop Wizard and flip items to become rich. You could even be a dung collector.
I hope this brought back some memories for the few of you who played Neopets over a decade ago!
